WISC: Learn, Refine and Share Analysis, Skills, Vision, Strategy

Current Curriculum

At any given time only a subset of all WISC Courses are available for the current session. Here we offer a list of all courses, including those being given at the moment, and below those, all others already in the system.

As we are in only the first full session of of WISC, there are many additional faculty, signed up for coming semesters, but without yet having settled on course titles, and therefore not appearing in the lists below, including, for example, Bill Fletcher, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Rosa Clemente, Arun Gupta, and Chris Spannos - who, it should be added, is, along with Michael Albert, responsible for maintaining the site!

Available January/February Session

Each of the following courses can be taken this semester. If you are already logged in and you click on a course title, here or elsewhere in the school, you will see an option to enroll. You can also view the top page of the course, to gain a better idea what it includes. If you are not logger in - you do not yet have an account - you can log in as a guest without having to enter personal information, etc. As a guest, again, you can see the top page of courses, but then if you want to enroll you will have to create a WISC account, and pay for the particular course. Below are titles, faculty, and organizational sponsors...

Getting Started

Look Around

Get a World Institute Account

Click Create An Account. Fill out the forms. Having an account will make future browsing and participating easier and doesn't bind you to anything. But the system needs to know you are a real person and so it needs your email, and will send you a verification message to activate the account. If you can't find it, try your junk folder... If you continue to have a problem, contact us.

The Content of Courses

Each course has students from around the world so content is available at all hours. Content typically includes some combination of video, text, and discussion in forums.

Enroll in a Course

Once you are logged in to your account, from the full curriculum click on any course being given in the current session to see its top page. There should be a link to enroll right under the faculty person's name. If not, let us know. You can enroll as a full fee participating student, a low income participating student, or an observer only able to see content. For details, see Enrolling in Courses.

Take a Course

Once you have enrolled in a course, when the session for it begins you can participate by clicking on its various contents, using its forums, posting in response to its assignments, using blogs, etc. Courses have materials that faculty assume all students will access - plus other optional materials and forums, glossaries, etc. You use the offerings and participate however much you choose.

WISC Current Partners

The Organizational Partners composing WISC are continually subject to
addition. If you would like to become a partner consult our General Policies, to find out more about WISC, and then write us for answers to specific questions or to sign up! The Current Partners are listed below as well as on the partners page. Courses offered in WISC are each sponsored by a WISC partner.

"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.”

-- Noam Chomsky

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

-- Albert Einstein

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."

-- Martin Luther King Jr.

"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action."